XFCE: ALT-F1 shows the wrong menu on Debian 11

José Luis González

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Feb 27, 2022, 4:40:05 PM2/27/22

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Hi,

Upon upgrading to Debian 11, the ALT+F1 key, which is assigned as a
shortcut to xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu, according to XFCE's settings,
no longer shows the applications menu and instead the app menu button
on my panel appears pressed without the menu unfolded. A second key
press shows the CTRL-ESC (xfdesktop --menu) menu, not the app menu.

What's going on? I'm suffering from the same in both machines I have
with Debian 11.

Ralph Katz

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Feb 28, 2022, 6:00:06 PM2/28/22

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On my Bullseye 11.2 XFCE Dell laptop, I need Fn-ALT-F1 to do that even
though ALT-F1 is specified in Settings -> Keyboard -> Application Shortcuts.

Hope this helps.

Ralph

José Luis González

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Feb 28, 2022, 7:50:05 PM2/28/22

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I just tried this and it doesn't work for me (nothing happens when I
add Fn).

Alexander V. Makartsev

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Mar 2, 2022, 7:40:05 AM3/2/22

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It looks like "xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu" is a simple wrapper Bash
script.
All it does is trying to execute "xfce4-panel" with a long line of
parameters and if that fails, fallback to execute "xfdesktop --menu"
instead.
Man page for "xfce4-panel" doesn't explain anything about
"--plugin-event" parameter, so it looks like it was reworked somehow.
The problem is that "xfce4-panel" never fails to execute with that
undocumented parameter, so fallback option doesn't work.
You can file a bug report about this, or change a command, assigned to
'Alt+F1' key combination, to
"/usr/bin/xfce4-panel --plugin-event=applicationsmenu:popup"

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José Luis González

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Mar 3, 2022, 5:50:07 PM3/3/22

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On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 17:30:38 +0500
"Alexander V. Makartsev" <avb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 28.02.2022 02:32, José Luis González wrote:
> > Hi,

Hi Alexander,

> > Upon upgrading to Debian 11, the ALT+F1 key, which is assigned as a
> > shortcut to xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu, according to XFCE's settings,
> > no longer shows the applications menu and instead the app menu button
> > on my panel appears pressed without the menu unfolded. A second key
> > press shows the CTRL-ESC (xfdesktop --menu) menu, not the app menu.
> >
> > What's going on? I'm suffering from the same in both machines I have
> > with Debian 11.
> It looks like "xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu" is a simple wrapper Bash
> script.
> All it does is trying to execute "xfce4-panel" with a long line of
> parameters and if that fails, fallback to execute "xfdesktop --menu"
> instead.
> Man page for "xfce4-panel" doesn't explain anything about
> "--plugin-event" parameter, so it looks like it was reworked somehow.
> The problem is that "xfce4-panel" never fails to execute with that
> undocumented parameter, so fallback option doesn't work.
> You can file a bug report about this, or change a command, assigned to
> 'Alt+F1' key combination, to
> "/usr/bin/xfce4-panel --plugin-event=applicationsmenu:popup"

The replacement command you propose doesn't work any better for me. I'm
going to file a bug report.

Best,
José Luis

Daniel Fishman

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Mar 7, 2022, 1:50:05 PM3/7/22

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This is the following issue:

https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues/201